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The immense success of Linux in the commercial space stems from many factors: its open source nature, extensibility, availability, lower cost, higher security - and the fact it has a Benevolent Dictator for Life, Linus Torvalds, at its helm. Not so can be said of Linux on the desktop. Yonder, Linux remains a stagnant player with a mere 1% market share, unable to break through in the same way it did in the server space. The presenter argues this is primarily due to its decentralized, community based nature. The desktop needs its own dictator. This session will explain why, in order to have more freedom, we need less.

Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation and a Linux geek by profession. Igor comes with 13 years of experience in the hi-tech industry, including medical, high-performance computing, data center, cloud, and hosting fields, with emphasis on complex problem solving and the scientific... Read More →